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Luminous Red Galaxies, or LRGs, are representative of the most massive galaxies and were originally selected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as good tracers of large scale structure. They are dominated by by uniformly old stellar…

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We present redshift probability distributions for galaxies in the SDSS DR8 imaging data. We used the nearest-neighbor weighting algorithm presented in Lima et al. 2008 and Cunha et al. 2009 to derive the ensemble redshift distribution N(z),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Erin S. Sheldon , Carlos Cunha , Rachel Mandelbaum , J. Brinkmann , Benjamin A. Weaver

Measuring distances of cosmological sources such as galaxies, stars and quasars plays an increasingly critical role in modern cosmology. Obtaining the optical spectrum and consequently calculating the redshift as a distance indicator could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-13 Aidin Momtaz , Mohammad Hossein Salimi , Soroush Shakeri

We present and compare in this paper new photometric redshift catalogs of the galaxies in three public fields: the NTT Deep Field, the HDF-N and the HDF-S. Photometric redshifts have been obtained for thewhole sample, by adopting a $\chi^2$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Fontana , S. D'Odorico , F. Poli , E. Giallongo , S. Arnouts , S. Cristiani , A. Moorwood , P. Saracco

The accurate estimation of photometric redshifts plays a crucial role in accomplishing science objectives of the large survey projects. The template-fitting and machine learning are the two main types of methods applied currently. Based on…

The Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS) provides a large and deep photometric catalog of galaxies in the $z'$ and $R_c$ bands for ~90 square degrees of sky, and supplemental $V$ and $B$ data have been obtained for 33.6 deg$^{2}$. We compile a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. C. Hsieh , H. K. C. Yee , H. Lin , M. D. Gladders

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will precisely constrain cosmic expansion and the growth of structure by collecting $\sim$40 million extra-galactic redshifts across $\sim$80\% of cosmic history and one third of the sky. The…

We use deep and wide near infrared (NIR) imaging from the Palomar telescope combined with DEEP2 spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Chandra Space Telescope imaging to investigate the nature of galaxies that are red in NIR…

In order to answer the open questions of modern cosmology and galaxy evolution theory, robust algorithms for calculating photometric redshifts (photo-z) for very large samples of galaxies are needed. Correct estimation of the various…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Oleksandra Razim , Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Giuseppe Riccio , Mara Salvato , Giuseppe Longo

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of selecting high-redshift Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBG) using current and future broadband wide photometric surveys, such as UNIONS or the Vera C. Rubin LSST. This work is conducted in the context…

Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface brightness, and radial light profile to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James J. Wray , James E. Gunn

We present a method to refine photometric redshift galaxy catalogs by comparing their color-space matching with overlapping spectroscopic calibration data. We focus on cases where photometric redshifts (photo-$z$) are estimated empirically.…

We use the mock catalog of galaxies, constructed based on the COSMOS galaxy catalog including information on photometric redshifts (photo-z) and SED types of galaxies, in order to study how to define a galaxy subsample suitable for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masahiro Takada , Takashi Hamana , Hisanori Furusawa

Cosmology and galaxy evolution studies with LSST, \Euclid, and {\it Roman}, will require accurate redshifts for the detected galaxies. In this study, we present improved photometric redshift estimates for galaxies using a template library…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Bomee Lee , Ranga-Ram Chary

We measure the clustering of DES Year 1 galaxies that are intended to be combined with weak lensing samples in order to produce precise cosmological constraints from the joint analysis of large-scale structure and lensing correlations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 J. Elvin-Poole , M. Crocce , A. J. Ross , T. Giannantonio , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , S. Avila , N. Banik , J. Blazek , S. L. Bridle , R. Cawthon , A. Drlica-Wagner , O. Friedrich , N. Kokron , E. Krause , N. MacCrann , J. Prat , C. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. A. Troxel , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , J. Asorey , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , C. B. DAndrea , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , C. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , A. King , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , E. Macaulay , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , A. Moller , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , C. R. ONeill , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , N. E. Sommer , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , J. Zuntz

We developed a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), used as a classifier, to estimate photometric redshifts and associated probability distribution functions (PDF) for galaxies in the Main Galaxy Sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Johanna Pasquet , Emmanuel Bertin , Marie Treyer , Stéphane Arnouts , Dominique Fouchez

We present a catalogue of galaxy photometric redshifts and k-corrections for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seven Data Release (SDSS-DR7), available on the World Wide Web. The photometric redshifts were estimated with an artificial neural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ana Laura O'Mill , Fernanda Duplancic , Diego García Lambas , Laerte Sodré

In the next decade, the LSST will become a major facility for the astronomical community. However accurately determining the redshifts of the observed galaxies without using spectroscopy is a major challenge. Reconstruction of the redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alexia Gorecki , Alexandra Abate , Réza Ansari , Aurélien Barrau , Sylvain Baumont , Marc Moniez , Jean-Stéphane Ricol

The uncertainty in the photometric redshift estimation is one of the major systematics in weak lensing cosmology. The self-calibration method is able to reduce this systematics without assuming strong priors. We improve the recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Hui Peng , Haojie Xu , Le Zhang , Zhao Chen , Yu Yu